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NOVEMBER 2011 Volume 81

  • 20 Ways the World has Changed Since 1st Earth Summit
  • Don't Let the Bad-News Flood and Good-News Trickle Get You Down
  • The Human Cause of Climate Change: Where Does the Burden of Proof Lie?
  • How Many People Can Earth Support?

OCTOBER 2011 Volume 80

  • If All the Occupy Movement Accomplishes Is...
  • From 'Occupy Wall Street' to 'Occupy Earth': Our Planet is Also Indignant
  • We Are the 99 Percent
  • What is the 'Occupy' Movement All About?

OCTOBER 2011 Volume 79

  • How I am Using Social Media to Change the World, and You Can Too!
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. But It Will Be Tweeted
  • Social Media and Your Changing World View
  • Arab Spring Really Was Social Media Revolution

SEPTEMBER 2011 Volume 78

  • The Informer: Visionaries-The Philanthropists
  • On-Again, Off-Again 'Good' Habits: Bad for our Health, Bad for the Planet
  • Conservation Agriculture
  • Elements Society

SEPTEMBER 2011 Volume 77

  • Air Quality and Health
  • Obama Blows Smog in Everyone's Face
  • Pollution Free Cities
  • Radiation Network

AUGUST 2011 Volume 76

  • Youth of Past, Present and Future
  • Building a Sustainable Future:
  • The Second Denial
  • Ronald Rael's Earth Buildings

AUGUST 2011 Volume 75

  • Off-the-Shelf and Homemade Natural Insect Repellents
  • The Answer to Too Many Lemons? Don't Buy Any... or Make Lemonade
  • How To Start An Apartment Garden - Chicagoan Self Sufficiency

JULY 2011 Volume 74

  • Extreme green: Meet the Family That Never Throws Anything Away
  • How to Make Green Living a Family Affair
  • 12 Ways to Make That Green Thumb Even Greener
  • 10 Things You Never Knew Were Recyclable

JULY 2011 Volume 73

  • Keep Life Simple
  • The Insanely Easy Guide to Living a Greener, Better Life
  • Soon You Will Know... The Meaning of Life
  • 7 Principles to Simplify Your Family Life
  • The Top 5 Greenest Gadgets from CES 2011

JULY 2011 Volume 72

  • 5 Summertime Ideas for Earth-Friendly Fun
  • Organic Skincare: Green Beauty Recipes
  • Apple Car Coming Soon?
  • Easy Risotto Recipe

JUNE 2011 Volume 71

  • People Making a Difference Series - StandUp for Kids
  • People Power Online: These Folks Show How One Person Really Can Make a
  • Difference
  • 101 Ways Youth Can Change The World
  • People to People International

JUNE 2011 Volume 70

  • How Helping Others Benefits YOU
  • Kids, Here's How You Can Help Save the World
  • 10 Easy Ways to Become a Better Person
  • Teach Your Children - By Example - How to be Healthy

MAY 2011 Volume 69

  • Businesses that Give Back: An Idea Whose Time has Come
  • 'Doing Good' With the Profits
  • Give & Gain Day 2011: A Chance for Employees to Give Back to their Communities
  • HOW TO: Decide Which Charities Your Business Should Support

MAY 2011 Volume 68

  • Service to Others Equals Success
  • It's Not Just Giving...It's Investing
  • Some Boomers 'Retire' to Jobs that Allow Them to Help Others
  • Generation iY can become iGive, iLead, iChange

APRIL 2011 Volume 67

  • David Wilcock at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles
  • Children Who Lead Us - The Edison-Trait
  • Indigo, Crystal, Starseed Children & Adults Characteristics
  • Earth Day 2011

APRIL 2011 Volume 66

  • Dr. Emoto and the World of Water
  • Quantum Physics on Manifestation and Creating Your Reality with the Law of Attraction
  • Spontaneous Evolution
  • Florence Scovel Shinn

MARCH 2011 Volume 65

  • Japan's Tsunami Tragedy Ð Could There Be a Silver Lining?
  • 24 Other Energy Disasters From The Past Year
  • Is Japan's Nuclear Disaster a Wake-up Call for the Rest of the World?
  • The Psychology of Disaster

MARCH 2011 Volume 64

  • Social Media For Good
  • Our New Relationship with the Planet Requires New Definitions for 'Luxury'
  • Social Networks and Awakening Societies
  • 2011 World Day against Child Labour - 12 June 2011

FEBRUARY 2011 Volume 63

  • The Rat Race and the True Meaning of a Happy Life
  • Why Happiness is Not About Wealth, Power, Fame and Achievement
  • Going Beyond Worldly Pleasures

FEBRUARY 2011 Volume 62

  • 15 TED Talks to Help You Find Happiness
  • Happiness is Living in the Now
  • Wake Up: A Guide to Living Your Life Consciously
  • 5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Happier

JANUARY 2011 Volume 61

  • Water is the Blood of Life, but Water has Nothing to Do With It.
  • Visualizing Sustainable Water Resource Management
  • Union of Concerned Scientists: Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy
  • Technologies
  • Green Design Predictions For 2011

JANUARY 2011 Volume 60

  • 1000 Awesome Things
  • 11 Crucial Consumer Trends
  • 100 Things to Watch in 2011

DECEMBER 2010 Volume 59

  • Start your own Happiness Project
  • How to Not Get Hit by Cars: Important Lessons in Bicycle Safety
  • Eating Healthy: How to Protect Yourself from Fruits and Vegetables
  • Ordinary People Change the World

DECEMBER 2010 Volume 58

  • Cutting Down on Christmas Waste
  • Christmas 2010: The Benefits of Using LED Christmas Lights on your Tree

NOVEMBER 2010 Volume 57

  • Earth-friendly Yule Shopping
  • EcoDollar Member Rewards Program!

NOVEMBER 2010 Volume 56

  • Living Machines: Verdant Art-Tech Contraption Descends Upon France
  • John Todd's Living Machines: Portable Ecosystems
  • A Comparison of Living Machines with Conventional Technologies

OCTOBER 2010 Volume 55

  • Cars, Trucks, Air Pollution and Health
  • We Are What We Do
  • Easily Green Your Daily Routine

OCTOBER 2010 Volume 54

  • State of the Earth 2010: Making Sense of it All
  • Humans and the Water Cycle
  • Human Impact: Coral Reef Extinction

SEPTEMBER 2010 Volume 53

  • Experts at AAAS Forum Explore Controversial Geoengineering Ideas for Cooling the
  • Planet Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human
  • Health Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails

SEPTEMBER 2010 Volume 52

  • Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Supply
  • Diverse Water Sources Key to Food Security
  • Unusual Feed Supplement Could Ease Gassy Cows, Reduce Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Wave Hub Successfully Installed Off Cornish Coast

SEPTEMBER 2010 Volume 51

  • State of the Climate: Global Hazards - National Climatic Data Center
  • Weather-Related Disasters are Here to Stay, say Scientists
  • Climate Change Is a Scientific Reality, Not a Political Debate
  • Smarter Cities: Vertical Farming Could Ease World's Agricultural Woes

AUGUST 2010 Volume 50

  • As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather
  • Space Weather Turns into an International Problem
  • Scientists Baffled by Unusual Upper Atmosphere Shrinkage

AUGUST 2010 Volume 49

  • The Green-Energy Landscape Just Keeps Changing
  • WorldÕs Largest Tidal Turbine will Generate Enough Power for 1,000 Homes
  • LUMENHAUS: The Responsive Architecture, Zero Energy House

AUGUST 2010 Volume 48
  • Universal Responsibility and Our Global Environment - His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • Pavlovsk Seed Bank Faces Destruction
  • UN: Pakistan Flood Misery Exceeds Tsunami, Haiti
  • New Superbug Gene Could Spread Widely
  • 'Secret Agent' is on a Mission: Spreading Kindness

AUGUST 2010 Volume 47

  • Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster
  • Double Dividend: Make Money by Saving Nature
  • The Environmentalism of the Poor
  • Sun's Strange Behavior Baffles Astronomers

JULY 2010 Volume 46

  • The Terrible Truth About Plastic You Never Knew
  • Bio Plastic: A Solution to Plastic Waste Disposal?
  • Eco Shoes: Plastic Style Meets Ethical Consumption

JULY 2010 Volume 45

  • The Great Reskilling
  • Why Transition Culture?
  • Peak Oil Coming Soon? Let's See What it Might Look Like

JULY 2010 Volume 44

  • Wal-Mart Chairman: Go Green for Money, Not Image
  • 10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green
  • UN Warns Biodiversity Loss Poses Greater Business Risk than Climate Change
  • EWG's 2010 Shopper's Guide to Pesticide

JULY 2010 Volume 43

  • Just What's Needed: Klean Industries
  • The Fake Fire Brigade - How We Cheat Ourselves about our Energy Future
  • How Living Off the Grid Works
  • 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear

JULY 2010 Volume 42

  • Lindsey Williams on the Oil Spill and Toxic Gases Catastophe
  • Gulf Oil Spill 'Could Go on Years and Years' by F. William Engdahl
  • The Door to Hell

JUNE 2010 Volume 41

  • Essays: Can One Person Change the World?
  • Moving Mountains: How Doing Good Can be Good for You
  • The Age of Corporatocracy

JUNE 2010 Volume 40

  • Ordinary People Change the World
  • U.S. Consumers Lag Others in Sustainable Choices
  • Smoke-Free in 30 Days?
  • Be Lucky - It's an Easy Skill to Learn

JUNE 2010 Volume 38

  • The 'Dirty dozen': Produce Carries More Pesticide Residue
  • Five Food Choices to Avoid for Natural, Healthy Eating
  • Smoke-Free in 30 Days?
  • Babies Born Toxic?

MAY 2010 Volume 37

  • Genesis Redux
  • Biodiversity: Good for Every Living Thing... People Included
  • Not Just Oil: US Hit Peak Water in 1970 and Nobody Noticed
  • The Wisdom of Herds: How Social Mood Moves the World

MAY 2010 Volume 36

  • Spring Brings New and More Disturbing Signs of Accelerating Climate Change
  • Since Spill, Feds have Given 27 Waivers to Oil Companies in Gulf
  • Meet the Nano-spiders: The DNA Robots that Could One Day be Walking Through Your Body
  • Quest for Oil Leaves Trail of Damage Across the Globe

MAY 2010 Volume 35

  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010: No End In Sight For Eco-Disaster
  • Building a Better Future Will Take Better Behavior on Our Parts
  • Cancers from Environment 'Grossly Underestimated'
  • Natural Resources Defense Council 'Chemical Index'

MAY 2010 Volume 34

  • How to Not Get Hit by Cars: Important Lessons in Bicycle Safety
  • Getting in the Habit of Riding Your Bike More is, Well, as Easy as Riding a Bike
  • Commuting Cost Analysis: Bus vs Bike vs Car
  • Free NYC Cyclists Campaign

APRIL 2010 VOLUME 33

  • 'Poisons Under Your Sink: Hidden Danger of Cleaning Products
  • Skin Deep
  • Aspartame: The Real Story
  • Fluoride Deception

APRIL 2010 VOLUME 32

  • Earth Day 2010
  • The First Step to Curing our Planet's Ills? Recognizing Our Role in Creating Them
  • Atlantic Plastic Garbage Patch Found
  • Putting a Value on Nature Could Set Scene for True Green Economy

APRIL 2010 VOLUME 31

  • British Campaigner Urges UN to Accept 'Ecocide' as International Crime
  • In a Planetary Emergency, We Can't Afford to be Passive Bystanders
  • President Obama Calls for Action on 40th Anniversary of Earth Day

APRIL 2010 VOLUME 30

  • Shorter Working Week Soon Inevitable, Think Tank Says
  • Our Changing Work World: The Future Will be Different, But it Might be Better Too
  • Are We Working Ourselves to Death?
  • nef: 'Economics as if People and the Planet Mattered'

APRIL 2010 VOLUME 29

  • Water Facts
  • 'Plain Old' Drinking Water? Hard to Find, Wherever You Look
  • Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water
  • The Story of Bottled Water

MARCH 2010 VOLUME 28

  • Why Consuming Smarter Means Consuming Less
  • Endless Growth? It's Time to Stop Thinking Like Newborn Hamsters
  • The Venus Project

MARCH 2010 VOLUME 27

  • Learning from Nature II
  • Nature to Civilization: Your Bill is Coming Due
  • Nature's Hot Green Quantum Computers Revealed

MARCH 2010 VOLUME 26

  • Alternative Energy Crops in Space
  • Change is Still Constant, But It's Constantly Faster than in Heraclitus' Day
  • 'Skinput' Turns Body into Touchscreen Interface

MARCH 2010 VOLUME 25

  • Bill Gates: the Most Important Climate Speech of the Year
  • Terra Firma: Not as 'Firma' as You Might Think
  • PlanetSolar: World's Largest Solar Boat Finally Unveiled

FEBRUARY 2010, VOLUME 24

  • Thirty-Eight Percent of World's Surface in Danger of Desertification
  • What Will a Warmer, Drier Future Mean for Us?
  • Underground Home Designs: Swiss Mountain House Rocks!
  • Dying for a Diet Drink
  • A Swine Flu Post-Mortem: Questions Remain in the Aftermath of H1N1

FEBRUARY 2010, VOLUME 23

  • The Coming Crackdown on Greenwashing
  • Buyer Beware: Not All Green Claims are Created Equal
  • Top 5 Greener Gadgets to Look for in 2010
  • Birds Do It. Bats Do It.

FEBRUARY 2010, VOLUME 22

  • Environment: Can Ecotourism Be More Than an Illusion?
  • Insights and Inspirations: Correspondence from Abroad
  • Eco-tourism for the Responsible Traveller

FEBRUARY 2010, VOLUME 21

  • Plastic Roads Offer Greener Way to Travel in India
  • Smart Innovations, Better Lightbulbs Among 2009's Top Green Technologies
  • Xtreme Power: Super Dry Battery
  • Envion Oil Generator Turns Plastic Waste into Oil

JANUARY 2010 VOLUME 20

  • What is Food Security and Why is it Something We Should be Concerned About?
  • Food Doesn't Come from Stores: Healthy Soils, Friendly Climate Ensure Security
  • Food Crisis And The Global Land Grab

JANUARY 2010 VOLUME 19

  • Can Extinct Animals Be Resurrected?
  • Welcome to the 'Brave New World' of Genomics
  • The Human Genome Project and Eugenic Concerns
  • Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
  • Genetics and Genomics: Medicine Made to Measure?

JANUARY 2010 VOLUME 18

  • Loss of Biodiversity and Extinctions
  • From Forests to Deserts, No Region of the World Can Escape Extinction
  • Pollution Killing Flowers' Fragrance
  • How will the Sixth Extinction Affect Evolution of Species?

JANUARY 2010 VOLUME 17

  • Call of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction
  • We All Lose When the Planet Loses a Species to Extinction
  • Animal Extinction - The Greatest Threat to Mankind

DECEMBER 2009 VOLUME 16

  • 'We Can Be Buddhas'
  • Need for Giving Doesn't End with the Holidays
  • Too Poor for Peace? Global Poverty, Conflict, and Security in the 21st Century

DECEMBER 2009 VOLUME 15

  • 8 of World's Most Inspirational People
  • Beyond the Headlines: Inspiring Stories of 'Ordinary' People
  • Doing Good, and Feeling Better

DECEMBER 2009 VOLUME 14

  • Are We Asking the Wrong Questions about Renewable Energy?
  • What is Renewable Energy Exactly?
  • How to Break the Climate Stalemate Between the Global South and the North

DECEMBER 2009 VOLUME 13

  • Tragedy to Triumph: Greensburg to Greentown
  • What is a Sustainable City?
  • The World's most Sustainable Cities

DECEMBER 2009 VOLUME 12

  • Want to Make a Difference but can't find the time?
  • Forget the Mall: Save Time - and the Planet - by Holiday Shopping Online
  • Methods to Overcome Impulsive Christmas Shopping

NOVEMBER 2009 VOLUME 11

  • The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • Starving Oceans
  • Oceans Absorb Less Carbon Dioxide as Marine Systems Change
  • Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem

NOVEMBER 2009 VOLUME 10

  • Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming
  • Forget Hollywood-style Apocalypses: Climate Change Remains the Real Threat
  • Seeds of Thought

NOVEMBER 2009 VOLUME 9

  • Cars That Are Good For The Environment? Ok, Almost... But It's A Start.
  • Design by Nature Nurtures The Nature of Design
  • The California CleanTech Open

NOVEMBER 2009 VOLUME 8

  • Population: Some Boom, Some Decline
  • Human Population Pushes Earth to its Limits... But We Can Do Better
  • Global Overpopulation is the Real Issue

OCTOBER 2009 VOLUME 7

  • Why is the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Important?
  • Questions & Answers: The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit
  • How Climate Goals are Set and Why They Might Not Be Enough

OCTOBER 2009 VOLUME 6

  • Understanding Your Own Power
  • Did you Know...
  • Important Note to Members...

OCTOBER 2009 VOLUME 5

  • Bioneers
  • You Are the Solution!
  • Times Gone By But Not Bygone...

OCTOBER 2009 VOLUME 4

  • Children's Concerns For The Environment
  • Generation Fix
  • Youth in Action.

OCTOBER 2009 VOLUME 3

  • Green Alchemy: Turning Waste Plastic to Black Gold
  • Water, Water Everywhere? Not so Fast.
  • World Water Week

SEPTEMBER 2009 VOLUME 2

  • EcoDollar Member Rewards Program
  • Making Purchasing Decisions: Consumption vs. Responsible Consumption
  • Straight to the Point with EcoPoints

SEPTEMBER 2009 VOLUME 1

  • Welcome to the GlobalForce Network!
  • Even Spiderman Can't Match Our Green Web
  • GlobalForce's Global Initiative
  • Defining Moments